i8 wii.i) i'i.o\vi;ks oi- Colorado, 



Colorado Sprinc^s have discovered this, and m(^rnini^s after a rain 

 you "zaii see pai'ties oi two, lour, and sometimes ten .'Uid twelve, 

 ridini; toward the ean}'on. 



I can not describe to )'ou my dchi^ht when I (hscovercd this 

 primrose. My friends were all lookin_L( up at the mai^nilicent 

 si^ht before them. I, who had been there many times before, 

 was lookintr down, and discovered this hjvely specimen just in 

 time to prevent my horse stepping" upon it. It i(re\v alone, and 

 just above it was a red santlstone rock ; one could imagine that 

 the washing- from this rock had affected its coior. 



I ha\'e given )'ou only a portion of the plant. It grows no 

 higher than rei)resente(l in the painting, but trom the root will 

 c;om(; niany spreading branches. This represents one branch. 

 C>)n the whole plant I counted nine lull blossoms and thirty-three 

 buds. 



The iris, or fleur-de-lis, grows grandly in th(;se mountains. I 

 selected these from a bed that grew in the western i)art oi the 

 State. Dick told me of them and said there was a bed oi them 

 that could be seen ;it a great distance, so large was it and so 

 completely covered with flowers. lie said it looked irom a short 

 distance like a lovely j)urple carpet. 



I rode out one day and found he had not exaggerated their 

 b(,'auties. Thcty covered at least an acre of ground. It was 

 damp and in some places wet. I think there was a natural 

 spring in the midst of them that kept them constantly moist, and 

 this made them grow so large and rich. I have often seen them 



